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... anish enterprise. For it is impossible that they should have placed their camp in the very city, and joined battle close by the Pnyx and the hill cal... ...ul to the eye of the city, cut down a tall oak which he saw growing in the camp, which he trimmed to the shape of a trophy, and fastened on it Acron’s... ...No one was allowed to live after his own fancy; but the city was a sort of camp, in which every man had his share of provisions and business set out, ... ...arbarians besieged the Clusinians, Fabius Ambustus was dispatched to their camp to negotiate peace for the besieged; and, on their re- turning a rude ... ... amounting to nearly five thousand, took them prisoners, and plundered the camp; when they num- bered the dead, they found on the T uscans’ side eleve... ...hese things, used to return, and reviewing his own farm, his servants, and housekeeping, increase his labor, and retrench all superfluous expenses. 5... ... a master to look over the servants, that are, indeed, the living tools of housekeeping; and in this, indeed, he was in the right, in thinking, that i...

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...s? 4 Main Street CHAPTER I I On a hill by the Mississippi where Chippewas camped two generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower... .... Will had been lordly—stalwart, jolly, im- pressively competent in making camp, tender and under- standing through the hours when they had lain side ... ...ow. The buildings were as ill- assorted, as temporary-looking, as a mining-camp street in the motion-pictures. The railroad station was a one- room fr... ...ator and a few tinny church-steeples rose from the mass. It was a frontier camp. It was not a place to live in, not possibly, not conceivably. The peo... .... It was next day before either of them remembered that in their honeymoon camp they had planned that he should carry her over the sill. In hallway an... ...rt, “Drop in and see Carrie real often. Young folks today don’t understand housekeeping like we do.” Mrs. Bogart showed herself perfectly willing to b... ....” She exploded. “My dear young man, it is not your duty to instruct me in housekeeping, and it doesn’t particu- larly concern me what the Haydocks co... ...ily advocating a rose-garden cottage. “You’ve had a lot of experience with housekeeping, aunty, and don’t you think,” Kennicott appealed, “that it wou...

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...incoln: V ol Five ligible reason for. Y ours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TO A. CAMPBELL. SPRINGFIELD, June 28, 1858. A. CAMPBELL, Esq. MY DEAR SIR:—In 185... ...ween the Democratic and Re- publican parties, on the leading issues of the campaign. This question has been put to me by a gentleman whom I do not kno... ...undred dollars. This, too, is exclusive of my ordinary expenses during the campaign, all of which, being added to my loss of time and business, bears ... ... success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since. I went the campaign, was elected, ran for the Legislature the same year (1832), and wa... ...ATE SECRETARY W AS INSTRUCTED TO ANSWER A NUMEROUS CLASS OF LETTERS IN THE CAMPAIGN OF 1860. (Doctrine.) SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS, _______, 1860 DEAR SIR... ...must be as durable as the government itself. It is a question of national housekeeping. It is to the government what replenishing the meal-tub is to...

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... hills—one tunnel was three volumes long— defended as occasion required by camps of paper tents or brick blockhouses, and ending at last in a magnific... ...were two vigorous paragraphs upon the utter damnableness of the Rev. R. J. Campbell, a conta- gious damnableness I gathered, one wasn’t safe within a ... ...body was soon very glad indeed to come to that. She boasted how little her housekeeping cost her, and sought constantly for fresh economies that would... ... place to the excitements of the contest that followed the re- turn of Mr. Camphell-Bannerman to power in 1905. So far as the Kinghamstead Division wa... ...azing, independent notes. She bought some particularly costly furs for the campaign that roused enthusiasm whenever she appeared. She also made me a b... ...ni masts send- ing out invisible threads of direction to the armies in the camps, to great fleets about the world. The crowded, darkly shining river g...

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...h the bishop of the past, so with the bishop of the future; the Rev. H. J. Campbell, in his story of his soul’s pilgrimage, has given us a pleasant pi... ... Midianites of denial were prowling for these cling- ing souls, within the camp they were assailed by a meticu- lous orthodoxy that was only too eager... ...d to Lady Sunderbund’s project. And in accordance with that idea he set up housekeeping in London upon a scale that implied a very complete cessation ... ...not know where we stand. For a time we must not so much house ourselves as camp. We must take some quite small and modest house in some less expensive... ... once. “I am sorry, T ed,” she said. “It slipped from me.”... He called it camping, but the house they had found in Pembury Road, Notting Hill, was mo... ...nd in Pembury Road, Notting Hill, was more darkened and less airy than any camp. Neither he nor his wife had ever had any experience of middle-class h... ... had ever had any experience of middle-class house-hunting or middle-class housekeeping before, and they spent three of the most deso- lating days of ...

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...sive when taken out walking, sub- missive when planted on a three-cornered camp-stool that expanded from a gouty walking-stick, but seemed so inad- eq... ...gs in one are apt to be like Aubrey’s compromise between walking-stick and camp- stool—a little of neither.’ ‘I don’t mean it to be a little of neithe... ...cellence, in all the arrange- ments of his house. While breaking her in to housekeeping, he made himself appear almost in the light of a task-mas- ter... ...onomical! 0, Leonard, it is very hard to give up all one cared for to this housekeeping, and then never to please!’ Leonard felt his brother a tyrant.... ... ognized the fruit of her letter, and could well forgive the extra care in housekeeping required for T om’s critical tastes, nay, the cool expulsion o... ...uite well. Nonsense, I only want quiet.’ ‘Let me give you some of Aubrey’s camphor liniment.’ ‘Thank you,’ submitting to a burning application to his ... ...f the boarding-house—some resident in order to avoid the arduous duties of housekeeping, others temporarily brought thither in an interregnum of serva... ...had announced that he might perhaps pay a visit to his son Mordaunt in the camp at Lexington. Cora was expecting a letter from him, and the hope that ... ...ad gone to bed. ‘Papa!’ exclaimed Gertrude, ‘don’t you know what Richard’s housekeeping is? Don’t you recollect his taking that widow for a cook becau...

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...necessary luxury, and we had enough society among ourselves. Yet I confess housekeeping became rather a toil- some task, especially as I was suffering... ... is spread, on which a newer band Have pitched in Heaven’s smile their camp of death, Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguished breath.’ ...

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...d for going to church, and she had just time for a fresh administration of camphor before Mr. Kendal came forth from his study, and gave her his arm. ... ...that nothing could be more comfortable than that Lucy Kendal should set up housekeeping with her dear grandmamma. Every one gave advice, and nobody to... ...’s brother, mamma’s first cousin, captain in the 25th Lancers, and aide-de-camp to General Ferrars. It was the first meeting since an awkward parting.... ...del her treatment on that of her brother, the General, towards his aide-de-camp in the like predicaments. ‘Gilbert, I want to speak to you. I am afrai... ... on all like occasions, she did not wonder that it had wearied his aide-de-camp. ‘Perhaps,’ she said, ‘the backwoods may have fitted Miss Emily for th... ...tain solicitations from tailors and outfitters, bordered with portraits of camp-beds and portable baths, until, at last, when the real document appear... ... present he was well able to support Mdlle. Belmarche, as well as to begin housekeeping, and that there was every reason to believe that his wider and...

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...g determination of a nature accus- tomed to succeed. She had the genius of housekeeping, a faculty for economy, a thorough understanding of how to liv... ... young and rich Charles de Gondreville, who afterwards died in the Spanish campaign. By that time Flavie had had a second son, whom she henceforth ded... ...rrister. The attorney is the admin- istrator, who maps out the plan of the campaign, collects the munitions of war, and puts the force in motion; the ... ...said, be met with caution and ability, the barrister developed his plan of campaign. “You ought, my dear maitre, to go this very evening to Desroches,... ...still kept up their weekly receptions. Madame Phellion, convinced that the housekeeping leak- age, vulgarly called “the basket dance,” was the ruin of... ...ere others have brains. But everything that reminded him of his disastrous campaign was repulsive to him; besides, what safety was there in deal- ing ... ...nful conjectures, Madame Coffinet, who had the honor to take charge of his housekeeping, came up to ask if he would see Monsieur Etienne Lousteau. [Se... ...ike me? The little that I had, as everybody knows, has gone to eke out the housekeeping of that poor dear gentleman whose servant I have been for more... ...Thuillier had been led by Cerizet into what proved to be a most disastrous campaign. Now become the humble servant of la Peyrade, he was forced to acc...

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...ure; but she had her own quiet occupations, her books, her needlework, her housekeeping, and letter-writing, and was peacefully happy as long as she d... ...the other end of the room to the hoard of downstair toys; and an elaborate camp was under construc- tion, when by the fireside, the Canoness inquired ... ... thought the only way would be to haunt fairs and races, and look at their camp-followers. At a place in Hertfordshire I saw a performance advertised ...

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...ook two years to learn. You may fancy I have enough to do, and then all my housekeeping affairs take up a deal of time, for I not only have to order t... ...independent, and also makes us acquainted with the secrets of each other’s housekeeping, &c. All that artificial intercourse which depends a good deal... ...a mass of bright gerani- ums or gay creepers, the little bed-room with its camp bed, and medicine bottles and good books, and, too often, in spite of ... ...qual to attending the General Synod in New Zealand, far more so to another campaign in Australia, though he cherished the design of going to see after... ...ge Patteson we Clergymen are careless and inaccurate, because, as old Lord Campbell said, “there is no reply to our sermons.” ‘What would I give to ha... ...nd a man needn’t be unbelieving because he doesn’t like to be credu- lous. Campbell’s book on the Atonement is very hard, chiefly because the man writ...

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...avens! in what a state was the blood of this Empire. Before commencing his campaign he called on two ancient intimates, Lord Heddon, and his distant c... ...wo weeks they would follow to London: hinting also at a prospective Summer campaign. The day was fixed for Richard to depart, and the day came. Madame... ...bogey’s alarm of contingent grave results. She retreated to the entrenched camp of the fact she had helped to make. “It’s done!” she exclaimed. How co... ...words, his father wants him to see something of life before he enters upon housekeeping. Now I am proud to confess that I’m hardly equal to the task. ... ...ise a laugh in his neighbourhood, so that the company was divided, and the camp split: jollity returned to one-half, while sentiment held the other. R...

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...tion from the police. Lavienne, a man made for his master, was his aide-de-camp. He redeemed or renewed pawn-tickets, and visited the districts most t... ...e Duchesse de Langeais, and Madame Firmiani—who on her marriage with M. de Camps had resigned the sceptre in favor of the Duchesse de Maufrigneuse, fr... ...ablish- ment which, by your account, costs sixteen thousand francs a year. Housekeeping, servants’ wages, and the gross expenses of the house itself m... ... who sees your stables, your house, your train of servants, and a style of housekeeping which strikes me as far more luxurious than that of the Jeanre... ...t for some years past. There are plenty of women who achieve this in their housekeeping, but you are not one of those. T ell me, you may have the most... ...itors, and the landlord had some excuse in the Marquis’ extreme economy in housekeeping. He conducted it as a ruined man might. His servants always pa...

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... or died, or half the British army went to pieces in the sands. The Soudan campaign was a picturesque one, and lent itself to vivid word-painting. Now... ...re off Hakodate.—Somali muleteer being flogged.—Star-shelled bursting over camp at Berbera.—Slave-dhow being chased round Tajurrah Bah.—Soldier lying ... ...long-neglected gear, ‘it has been a beautiful business.’ ‘The patch or the campaign?’ said Dick. ‘Don’t think much of either, myself.’ ‘You want the E... ...ay, you can’t be ill here.’ Throughout the night, when the troops were en- camped by the whale-boats, a black figure danced in the strong moonlight on... ... of Jaen And sell him in Algiers. —A Dutch Picture. Longfellow THE S OUDAN CAMPAIGN and Dick’s broken head had been some months ended and mended, and ... ...ut, since you aren’t in a condition to discuss the disadvantages of double housekeeping, do you know what you’re going to do?’ ‘I don’t. I wish I did.... ...ne. He had given her his time and his powers. He had spoken to her of Art, housekeeping, technique, teacups, the abuse of pickles as a stimulant,—that... ...ndred pounds cashed for me before you leave?’ ‘That’s a slender amount for housekeeping, isn’t it?’ ‘Oh, it’s only for—marriage expenses.’ Torpenhow b...

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... together. He was mean; he allowed only a weekly twenty-five shillings for housekeeping, and sometimes things grew unsatisfactory at the week-end. The... ...Wells CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXIV THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMP THE CAMPAIGN OP AIGN OP AIGN OP AIGN OP AIG... ...trousseau 0 16 1 By housekeeping exs. 1 1 4-1/2 By “...

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...e squabbled weekly with her Mamma as to the percentage to be given towards housekeeping. When the quarrel was over, Michele D’Cruze used to shamble ac... ...entury and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping. But that is another story. Her belief only made the Colonel’s... ...atory, till that unspeakable powder had burned itself out. Then an Aide-de-Camp, who desired the V. C., rushed through the rolling clouds and hauled M... ...the legs of the White Hussars. They were wrong. A march-past concluded the campaign, and when the Regiment got back to their Lines, the men were coate... ...b and roar of a movement on parade, or the rough horse-play of watering in camp—made them only more terrified. They felt that the men on their backs w...

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... and already had Mrs. Bennet planned the courses that were to do credit to her housekeeping, when an answer arrived which deferred it all. Mr. Bingley... ... visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent conce... ..., indeed, and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton, and a whole campful of Pride and Prejudice 175 soldiers, to us, who have been over... ...arp as her mother, she is saving enough. There is nothing extravagant in their housekeeping, I dare say.” “No, nothing at all.” “A great deal of good ... ... tens and to scores of them at present unknown. She saw all the glories of the camp; its tents stretched forth in beauteous uniformity of lines, crowd... ... and assurance, by a situation of such double danger as a watering place and a camp. Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes fou... ...off in a violent hurry, as Mrs. Forster called her, and they were going to the camp; — and from her correspondence with her sister, there was still le...

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... to the war. Those young men—many of them at least— will sicken and die in camp, or be shot down, or struck through with bayonets on battle fields, an... ...or brain stricken girl. And Robert Hagburn, having to bring a message from camp to the selectmen here, had it in charge to bring the girl, whom his mo... ... was not backward in requiring of her a due share of labor for the general housekeeping. Septimius was sitting in his room, as the afternoon wore away...

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...his fa- ther a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide- de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort of hostility to the new favourite... ...ttering up from those stationed at the gate of Gaunt House—and the aide-de-camp ran round and placed himself in front of Colonel Crawley. That gallant... ... hands, he gave way to an emotion, the sight of which caused the tough old campaigner opposite him to wince with sympathy. “Hold up, old boy,” he said... ...s engraved, who begged to see Colonel Crawley. The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an em... ... from the West Indies had been baulked of its stay at home by the Waterloo campaign, and had been ordered from Flanders to India, had received orders ... ... Sedley. He preferred a continental life, he said, and declined to join in housekeeping with his sister and her husband. 199 Thackeray Emmy was very ...

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... said in a low tone, with a side-glance at Archer. “Oh, that’s part of the campaign: Granny’s orders, no doubt,” Lefferts laughed. “When the old lady ... ... little oyster supper I’d planned for you at Delmonico’s next Sunday, with Campanini and Scalchi and a lot of jolly people.” She looked doubtfully fro... ...ou go back on me. Come—think better of it! Sunday is your last chance, for Campanini leaves next week for Balti- more and Philadelphia; and I’ve a pri... ... delicacies, was presently saying to Archer: “Y ou see, my dear fellow, we camp—we literally camp. I tell my wife and May that I want to teach them ho... ...ies had got out their faded sables and yellowing ermines, and the smell of camphor from the front pews almost smothered the faint spring scent of the ... ...e. “They smell less if one blows them out,” she explained, with her bright housekeeping air. On the threshold she turned and paused for his kiss. XXVI...